compounded vs pen — anyone actually notice a difference at the same mg
compounded vs pen — anyone actually notice a difference at the same mg. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this.
First month I lost almost nothing and nearly quit. Month two and three were where it all happened.
Sat at 0.25mg for four months because it was doing the job. Everyone told me to go up. The one time I did, the only thing that changed was the muscle cramps.
The mental model that finally made this click for me: there are two curves, and people watch the wrong one.
The first is exposure, which is set by the dose and smoothed by a week-long half-life. It changes when you change the dose and then settles over about a month. The second is body weight, which is exposure filtered through appetite, food, water, sleep, training and the scale itself, and which moves in steps rather than a line.
Almost every "it stopped working" post is somebody watching curve two over a fortnight and drawing conclusions about curve one. If the appetite effect is still there, exposure is fine. Wait the month.
Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Removed the dose recommendation. You can describe what you did; you cannot tell somebody else what to take.
The escalation schedule in the trials existed to keep people on the drug. It is a tolerability ramp, and it is why the label reads the way it does.
My stall was eleven weeks. Eleven. Then it moved again without me changing anything at all.
Minor fix — the half-life is about a week, not about a day. The rest of your point stands.
Same. I sat at 0.25mg for three months because it was working and there was nothing to fix.